C143

"I've bought all the pills I need for the time being. The map should be enough for me to cultivate outside for a while." Han Xiao looked at the pills in his storage ring and nodded his head in satisfaction.

At the beginning, he wanted to go to the nearest village, Cloud Village, to buy medicinal pills, but he was afraid that Xiao Ke'er and the others would catch up to him, so he simply flew eastward, passing through numerous trees and barren lands. Finally, he arrived at the Qingming City that he currently resided in.

After buying his things, Han Xiao felt a little hungry, so he decided to go to the nearest restaurant to eat, and did not delay his departure anymore. This time, he came out mainly because he wanted to use battle to stimulate his potential, and after looking at the map, he finally chose to go to the Ten Thousand Beast Forest that was more than three hundred miles away from Qingming City as the first stop for his cultivation in the past three years.

As Han Xiao flew out of Qingming City, he followed the directions on the map and headed south. Along the way, he met many cultivators that were in a hurry, but none of them seemed to care about each other.

After five days of travel, Han Xiao finally arrived. Looking down at the lush forest, Han Xiao's mind stirred as he slowly descended to the ground and entered the Ten Thousand Beast Forest.

As the name implied, the Ten Thousand Beast Forest was famous for its huge number of spirit beasts. Although there were many trees similar to the Ten Thousand Beast Forest in the Zephyr Continent, the number of spirit beasts inside could not be compared.

In the depths of the Ten Thousand Beast Forest, there were tens of thousands of Rank 10 spirit beasts that could be compared with Immortal Transformation Stage cultivators. However, those Rank 10 spirit beasts already possessed intelligence, and the main purpose of their cultivation was to pass through heavenly tribulation and transform into a human form, so usually, Rank 10 and above spirit beasts would not easily appear. Thus, even though there were Rank 10 spirit beasts in the Ten Thousand Beast Forest, the entire Ten Thousand Beast Forest was dominated by Rank 9 spirit beasts.

As soon as he entered the Ten Thousand Beast Forest, Han Xiao smelled a fishy stench. He could vaguely hear the roars of a few spirit beasts, as well as the nearby low level spirit beasts fleeing as he entered.

Although they did not gain intelligence, the Spiritual Beasts they could sense from auras were stronger than human cultivators. The moment they sensed any danger, they would run away without any hesitation to avoid it.

Hearing the movements in his surroundings, Han Xiao's lips curled up into a faint smile. If he wasn't willing to help a low level spirit beast, that would only lower his status, and he would also feel like he was bullying the weak. Thus, his goal this time was to survive in the middle of the Ten Thousand Beast Forest, a Rank 7 and Rank 8 spirit beast.

With a "hua la" sound, a snow-white snow fox ran out from the bushes to his front. The little snow fox had a light red plum blossom symbol on its forehead, making it look even cuter.

It was obvious that the little Snow Fox did not expect to come here. It looked at Han Xiao with its large dark eyes, its eyes were filled with curiosity and fear.

Seeing the little Snow Fox in such a state, Han Xiao's playful mood greatly increased. Just as he was about to go up and pick up the little Snow Fox, he saw a white figure scurry out of the forest, taking the little Snow Fox into his mouth before disappearing into the forest.

Seeing the two white figures disappear, Han Xiao slowly came back to his senses. In this Ten Thousand Beasts Forest, he was like an intruder, rejected by all the living beings here.

"Forget it, I'll just find a place to stay." With that said, Han Xiao flew to a tree and quickly traveled through the forest.

On one side, Han Xiao was searching for a place to rest in the Ten Thousand Beasts Forest, while on the other side, the Obscure Realm was quietly enveloping the entire continent. The light golden moonlight shone on the ground, giving the entire continent a mysterious feeling.

It should have been a comfortable night sitting in Han Xiao's small courtyard, but Wang Yang felt a sense of irritation. Even the tea in his cup looked as if it was going against him, which made him even more irritated.

"Whap." Wang Yang ruthlessly threw the cup in his hand onto the floor, undisguised anger in his eyes.

It had already been half a month, and when he returned half a month ago, he discovered that Han Xiao had already disappeared. He originally thought that Han Xiao had gone out with Xi Yun and the rest, but he found out that Han Xiao had gone out to gain experience in the academy, and had not known when Han Xiao would return. This made him very angry, and he had always thought that Han Xiao was in his control.

"Young master." A black shadow quietly landed in front of Wang Yang, with a respectful look on his face, he said: "The people that were sent out received reports that Han Xiao was found in Qingming City, but he just stood there and left."

"Qingming City, alright, I got it. Tell Zou Shi that Han Xiao has already guessed the connection between the Demon Shadow Sect and the living corpse, and ask him to send more people with Qingming City as the center to search for Han Xiao. Once they find him, just cripple him and don't kill him." Wang Yang coldly said.

"Yes, your subordinate understands." After saying that, the black shadow silently left as if it had never been here before.

"Ouyang Minghe, this time I will definitely let you know what true despair is." The corner of Wang Yang's mouth slowly curled up into a cold smile as he spoke.

"Roar!" The Twin-Horned Tiger let out a long roar into the sky before heavily falling to the ground. It closed its eyes unwillingly, and its originally heaving chest slowly fell to the ground, no longer moving.

"This is the third one for today. As expected, we'll be able to encounter more High Rank Spiritual Beasts in the middle." Han Xiao put away the Silver Blood Sword and slowly walked in front of the Twin-Horned Tiger as he spoke.

Even though this Twin-Horned Tiger was a Rank 7 spirit beast, its strength and speed was not inferior to an early stage Bold Spirit Cultivator. If it wasn't for the fact that he had already broken through to the early stage of the Bold Spirit Stage and comprehended the Empyrean Terminus Sword Technique, he really didn't have the confidence that he could have killed it.

After a while, he saw Han Xiao slowly squatting down and taking out a small dagger from his storage ring to cut off the body of the Twin-Horned Tiger. As his cultivation level increased, the amount of spirit stones he had saved up was also increasing, to the extent that he only had around 500 million left, perhaps to others, this was not a small amount, but to Han Xiao, who spent his money like water, it was very easy for him to cut off everything he could use for spirit beasts, even if he didn't want to sell them, he could save a lot of spirit stones.

Carefully chopping off a pair of horns on the Twin-Horned Tiger's head, he finished harvesting all the valuable items on the Twin Horned Tiger's body. He raised his head to look at the sky and thought for a moment before turning back to return to his original position.

To say that it was a foothold was simply to set up a simple little tent on a larger tree. Perhaps it was due to the influence of the original idea, but he believed that trees in the forest were much safer than the ground, and that was indeed the case.

Sitting in the tent, Han Xiao thought about every detail of today's battle. Slowly closing his eyes, he opened all of his Acupoint Swallowing stance and began to absorb the surrounding source energy. The large amount of source energy fluctuations caused some of the nearby spirit beasts to feel a tinge of fear.

On the other hand, Han Xiao did not know what kind of trouble his actions caused to the low level spirit beasts, but he still continued to absorb more Origin Energy to strengthen himself.

The next morning, Han Xiao woke up early and hid his tent before jumping down from the tree, continuing to walk deeper into the Ten Thousand Beast Forest.

Today's weather was quite good, the gentle sunlight shining through the tree trunk onto his body felt very comfortable. As he walked, Han Xiao suddenly heard the rustling sound of leaves. Although it was very soft, he immediately recognized it as the rustling of leaves by the Spirit Beast.

Immediately, he became alert of the source of energy in his body, clenching his left fist and preparing to punch out at any time.

It was as if he knew that Han Xiao had discovered him and the movement had stopped, causing the surroundings to fall into silence. Sensing that the surroundings had quieted down, Han Xiao decided to no longer move, quietly waiting for the spirit beast in the darkness to attack.